Fw: Response to WEBMD article

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Way to go girl. Put those people in their place!! We need to do this more often and call docs, researchers, and scientists on what they are telling the public.

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From: " by way of ilena rose " <Boone1289@...>

Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 6:22 PM

Subject: Response to WEBMD article

> Dear Dr. Grayson and Ms. Mann, Regarding the story on WebMD about the

> new wave of breast implants, you have given the public outdated

> information and false assurance. I quote two paragraphs: " But, an

> independent panel convened by the prestigious Institute of Medicine

> concluded that silicone breast implants do not cause cancer or other

> illnesses such as those previously mentioned. " You also stated, " And a

> large review study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that women

> with silicone breast implants do not appear to have a higher risk of

> developing diseases of the immune system. " Regarding cancers, previous

> studies (Deapen and Brody) found that women did not develop more breast

> cancers, but they did develop more cancers of the lungs, cervix, and

vulva

> than other women. These details often got lost in the manufacturers' and

> plastic surgeons' press releases. You should also be aware of 3 new

> studies, independent research, conducted by the prestigious FDA and the

> prestigious National Cancer Institute. The first research, published in

> Epidemiology in early May, is the first study that has ever examined all

> causes of death among implant patients. The researchers looked at 8,000

> implanted women, and the study shows that implant patients were three

> times as likely to die from lung cancer, emphysema and pneumonia. The

> second study, published in ls of Epidemiology, found a statistically

> significant 21% overall increase in cancers for women with implants,

> compared to women of the same age in the general population. The number

> of women with stomach cancer, cervical cancer, vulvar cancer, brain

> cancer, and leukemia were all at least twice as high among women with

> implants. Another new study by a team of scientists from the Food and

> Drug Administration (FDA), and the prestigious medical schools at Duke

> University, University of land, and University of California at San

> Diego, was published in the May issue of the Journal of Rheumatology.

> Women with extracapsular silicone were more likely to report having

> fibromyalgia or other Connective Tissue Diseases, which included

> dermatomyositis, polymyositis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, mixed CTD,

> pulmonary fibrosis, eosinophilic fasciitis, and polymyalgia than other

> women in the study. Interestingly enough, there was another study funded

> by Dow Corning in Archives of Internal Medicine earlier this year. As

> usual, it looked at " defined CTD. " The study was done by the prestigious

> Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Institute of Cancer

> Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark. Although they

> did not find classical diseases, they found statistically significant

> excesses of unspecified rheumatism when compared with national rates. I

> think you should make these findings available to the women who read your

> web site. Besides the high rupture rates and multiple local complications,

> the public needs to know that silicone is not inert, and that the content

> of breast implants not only migrates throughout the body, it is both

toxic

> and dangerous. Sincerely, Boone, RN

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